Looking for a cooler for my 8700k

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Smoshi

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So I just got an 8700k with an Asus Prime z370-a motherboard. My current cooler is a somewhat old thermaltake heatsink+fan. I had to disable turbo boost just to get lower temps. Currently at 3.7ghz on all cores and now I'm not going above 70c where before with turbo boost on and only at 4.0ghz on all cores I was approaching 80c.

So I'm looking to get a new cooler for my CPU. My case is the Corsair Spec-02 Redshift. I really wanted to get the Noctua d15s because I heard it's one of the best air coolers. Unfortunately, My case only supports a maximum height of 157mm. The d15s is at least 160mm. So now I'm looking at the u14s..

I'm not looking to really overclock. But I would like to at least be able to run my cpu at 4.7ghz while under 80c.

My case came with 3 fans (2 in the front and 1 in the back)..

My budget is around $60 or so.

Thank you guys for the help!
 
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10tacle
Well for air coolers, $60 is really no-man's land when it comes to price/performance. Check out Cryorig's $30 H7 cooler. It will fit and is only about 3C behind my NH-D14 under load. If you are not seriously overclocking, you will save money on top of that. In fact I bought one of those for my old E8400 C2D build that originally had a Zalman 9700LED copper radial fan heat sink. Temps dropped by 7C.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/CRYORIG/H7_Universal/6.html
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10tacle

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Well for air coolers, $60 is really no-man's land when it comes to price/performance. Check out Cryorig's $30 H7 cooler. It will fit and is only about 3C behind my NH-D14 under load. If you are not seriously overclocking, you will save money on top of that. In fact I bought one of those for my old E8400 C2D build that originally had a Zalman 9700LED copper radial fan heat sink. Temps dropped by 7C.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/CRYORIG/H7_Universal/6.html
 
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Approaching 80C doing what? 80C is not terrible, it is warm/hot but not too hot. As long as you aren't going over 80C on a regular basis it would be fine.

The NH-U14S is 165mm tall and the Spec-02 has a specified max cooler height of 157mm (though some say 160mm will fit, I think...). I don't believe the U14S will fit.

 
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If you want to try I have had good luck pushing my rig with coolermaster. the new ma410p is recent review that was very good as well. right now its 43 on newegg with 10 rebate. I push my 3770k with and dual fan evo and never above 60 fully overclocked.
 
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Karadjgne

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The specs are iffy at best. There's 2x120mm fans on top, but specs say that case only supports 120mm in rear. There's more than a few ppl with hyper212 X in that case, so I'd give credence to it fitting 160mm coolers. Somewhat. Take it with a grain of salt, sneeze and you scratch the window.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DTIUkQ_GmcW4&ved=0ahUKEwjJoML_3c7aAhVN7FMKHT1zCfgQwqsBCDowAg&usg=AOvVaw3UWyGetBXF-yt11go_z_x4

Honestly, for an 8700k I'd be looking at the BeQuiet Darkrock Pro 4, if it'll fit on the mobo.
 
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